EF#1: My Endo Fertility Struggle Changed my Life with Lizzie Alexander

In this debut episode, I wanted to share a bit about myself and my personal journey with Endometriosis, which took 25 years to get a diagnosis, my struggle to get pregnant, and how I finally became pregnant and gave birth at 39 to our miracle baby. There is too much to tell in one episode, but I give you the basics, and other bits will come out during future episodes I am sure.

I wanted to tell you my story, as I want you to understand why I understand how you are feeling, the frustration, fear, anger, sadness, pain and so much more. I want to give you hope and empowerment that you can make changes to your health and increase your chances of getting pregnant as you increase your fertility. I have learnt so much about myself on my healing journey. I want to share how my diagnosis has since changed my life, how it helped me heal so many of my symptoms, and how I then decided I wanted to change my career to become a nutrition and health coach and help other women with their own Endo Fertility struggle.

Some of the things I mention are:

• My unexplained fertility diagnosis and persistence to find out more
• Finally finding out I had endometriosis
• Finding my fertility and endometriosis coaches
• Learning what Endo symptoms mean
• Understanding the need to nourish my body
• Gut health / liver issues
• Mindset changes
• Quitting my career as a marine environmental consultant
• Lifestyle changes
• How much you had learnt on this journey/ Health coach course
• Retraining as an Integrative Nutrition and Health Coach
• Realising I wanted to help other women like me.
• Learning what I need to do now we are trying for baby no. 2, especially knowing what I know now!

Endo Fertility links and resources:

• Join my Endo Fertility community! Find us in the Thrive and Conceive with Endometriosis Facebook Group.
• Follow me on Instagram and Facebook

• Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Optimistic Future

Relevant blogs:

• How Fertility Coaching Changed My Life
• Endometriosis made me cry with relief

This episode is sponsored by the Endo Fertility Resource Library where you can get your 3 amazing freebies: E-Book: 5 Things I Learnt to Drop My Pain & Optimise My Fertility, Your Guide to Super Sperm, and 88 Ways I Dropped My Pain and Got Pregnant.

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